Coin-holder.



Um'rnn STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

HENRIETTA L. HAYNES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,228, dated October 9, 1900. Application filed September 6, 1899. Serial No. 729,585. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRIETTA L. HAYNES, of Boston, county of-Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ooin-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accom panying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to coin-holders, and has for its object to improve the construction of the coin-holder shown and described in my application for Letters Patent,Serial No. 702,840, to the end that the construction of the saine is simplified in many respects and means provided for disposing the coinsrobliquely in the holder or case when placed therein, bthereby providing for a large number of coins in a holder of convenient size to be carried about, and means provided for facilitating sliding the coins into the holder or case and also facilitating their removal.

The invention consists in an open-faced case open at one end and having parallel grooves which receive the coins, said grooves being of greater width than the thickness of the coins, whereby they may be disposed so 4as to' overlap one another, and means for disposing the coins obliquely in said case when placed therein; also, in an open-faced ease open at one end and having parallel grooves for the reception ot' the coins and a self-acting retaining device for the coins,

consisting of a pair of spring-acting arms provided with inwardly project-ing ends which partially close the open end of the ease; also, in an open-faced case open at. one end and having parallel grooves for the reception of the coins and arest located at the open end of the case, on which acoin is placed in position to be slid into the case,said rest receiving upon it a coin as it is removed from the case; also, in au open-faced case open at one end and having two parallel-arranged coin-receiving portions, and a rest located at the open end ot' the case between said coin-receiving portions on eitherside of which-a coin may be placed in position to be slid into the respecti ve coin-receiving portions.

Figure 1 shows in front elevation a coinholder embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical section of the saine, taken on the dotted line :c x,

Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a vertical section of the same, taken on the dotted line y y, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5, a top view of the coinfholder.

The open-faced case A, having, as herein shown, two parallel channels or grooves b for coins of a certain denomination, and two parallel channels or grooves c for coins otanother denomination, may be substantially the saine as in the application above referred to, and the channels or grooves of both coin-receiving portions will be made of a width greater than the thickness of the coins in order that the coins contained in the case may overlap one another, provision being thereby made for a large number of coins in a case or holder of convenientsize to be carried about. In order t-hat the coins when placed in the case may be readily caused to overlap one another, means are provided for disposing them obliquely in the case. As herein shown, said means consist of a number of recesses 2, formed at regular intervals along one side of the interior of each groove or channel-as, for instance, they may be formed along the outer sides of said grooves or channels-and said recesses are adapted to receive the lower edges ot' the coins, which may be placed in the case and disposed therein obliquely.

The recesses 2 may be formed or produced by indenting the outer walls of the case, as

shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and when so formed or .provided projections 3 will be provided, against which the lower edges of the coins may abut.

At the lower end of the case or holder a projection 4 is formed or provided on the interior of one side of the groove or channel, and said projection 4 directs the lowermost coin, which will be the first coin introducedr into the case, into an oblique position and holds it so disposed, so that the next coin introduced will have a tendency to occupy a corresponding oblique position by striking upon it. To yet Jfurther assist in directing the coins into oblique positions, the opposite sides of the grooves or channels along their interior surfaces will be formed or provided with projections 5, which are located at regular distances apart and so disposed as to occupy positions just above the upper edges of the coins contained in the ease, said projections 5 being rounded or beveled, as shown,

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so that each successive coin which is introduced will be guided by the said projections 5, and thereby directed into an oblique position. It is obvious that many ways may be provided for thus disposing the coins obliquely in the case, so I do not desire to lilnit my present invention to the particular means herein shown.

A self-acting retaining device is provided for the coins contained in the case, which consists of a pair of spring-acting arms d, formed of a piece of wire bent U-shaped and having its ends bent or formed with inwardlyprojecting portions d, which partially close the open end of the case, and said retaining device may he made of suitable shape to be readily filled into the case and held therein by its own spring acl-ion ol by means of a suitable fastening.

Tile case herein shown is provided with two coin receiving portions adapted to receive coins ot` two diiierent denominations, and a rest e will be disposed at the open end of the case between said coin-receiving portionsas, for instance, it will be pivotally connected to the )artition-wall which separates the two coin-receiving portionsand in such case said rest will receive the coins upon either side of it and hold them in position to be readily slid into the open end of their respective coin-receiving portions.

I do not desire to limit lny invention to the employment of a rest, as it is obvious that the same may be omitted; but in practice it materially facilitates sliding the coins into and also removing them from the case.

In operation the rest e will be supported upon or held by the linger in the position shown as the thumb manipulates the coins.

I claim- 1. A coin-holder consisting of an open-t`aced case having an open end and parallel side grooves which receive the coins, said groovesv being made of greater width than t-he thickness ofthe coins whereby said coins are adapted to occupy oblique positions in the case so as to overlap one another and means for directing the coins into corresponding oblique positions as they are slid into the case, substantially as described.

2. Acoin-holder consist-ing of an open-faced case having an open end and parallel side grooves which receive the coins, said grooves being made of greater width than the thickness of the coins, and altemately-arranged projections and recesses on the interior of said grooves whereby the coins are disposed obliquely in said case, substantially as described.

3. Acoin-holder consisting of an open-faced case having an open end and parallel side grooves which receive the coins, said grooves being lnade of greater width than the thickness of the coins, and alternately-arranged projections and recesses on one side of the interior of said grooves and projections on the opposite sides of the interior ot' said grooves, whereby the coins are directed and disposed obliquely in said grooves, substantially as described.

4. Acoin-holderconsisting of an open-faced case having an open end and parallel side grooves which receive the coins, said grooves heilig made of greater width than the thickness ot the coins, and the projection Lt, at one4 side of the groove at the lower end of the case by which the lowermost coin is disposed obliquely in the case, substantially as described.

5. A coin-holderconsistingof an open-faced ,case having an open end and parallel side grooves which receive the coins, said grooves being made ot' a greater width than the thickness of the coins, and the projections 5 located at regular distances apart along one side of said grooves just above the upper edges of the coins, which assist in directing the coins into oblique position in the case, substantially as described.

6. Acoin-holder consisting ofan open-faced case open at one end and having parallel grooves for the reception of the coins and a self-acting retaining device for the coins consisting of ,a pair of spring-acting arms having inwardly-projecting ends or points which partially close the open end of the case, substantially as described.

7. Acoin-holder consisting ofan open-faced case open at one end and having parallel grooves for the reception of the coins, and a self-acting retaining device for the coins consisting of a U-shaped piece of spring-acting wire fitted into the parallel grooves of the case and formed with inwardly-projecting ends' which partially close the open end ofthe case, substantially as described.

8. Acoin-holderconsisting of an open-faced case, open at one end and having two parallelarranged coin -receiving portions provided with independent retaining devices for the coins and a rest located at said open end of the case between said coin-receiving portions on either side of which the coins are placed in position to be slid into the respective coinreceiving portions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this speciflcation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRIETTA L. HAYNES.

Witnesses:

B. J. NoYEs, J. L. HUToHINsoN.

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